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Old 08-21-2012, 10:15 AM
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Finally I took stethoscope and located knock, which I believed was a lifter.

distributor shaft has free play.

I took it apart and looks like bearing grease solved the problem.
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What shaft has free play?

'Shaft has free play' isn't very descriptive...


I thought you'd been a mechanic for years and years and years?
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What shaft has free play?

'Shaft has free play' isn't very descriptive...


I thought you'd been a mechanic for years and years and years?
No, thats me

Pull the distributor and go from there, assess how much play it has. Its fairly simply to remove.
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What shaft has free play?

'Shaft has free play' isn't very descriptive...


I thought you'd been a mechanic for years and years and years?
Well, I still need advice from time to time. When I was rebuilding my first AT, I talked to transmission guy probably 10 times.

I opened distributor cap and moved rotor side to side, then I heard the knock.
I removed distributor, knocked out pin, holding plastic round piece, pulled out shaft, greased it, that was it.
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What shaft has free play?

'Shaft has free play' isn't very descriptive...


I thought you'd been a mechanic for years and years and years?
I'm pretty sure he's a Google mechanic that doesn't know how to use Google.
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